About

A Humble Start

From a 14,000 acre farm in wild West Wylong NSW, to coastal breezes of Sydney, surfside towns of Central Coast and Byron Bay, I now call Cardiff, Wales my home. When I was a boy, anything to do with sport I simply loved, food and coffee had not yet hit my radar. It was only when I moved to Sydney, took on science at university, coffee became an essential part of my daily routine, actually it was three times daily most of the time.

Career

As a career took over, my love of food and good coffee became one of the most reliable part of my days. Whether I was onsite, on a plane, or at home, coffee was a must. When I left university, I was fortunate enough to be paid to travel and work in some of the remotest, untouched parts of the globe. Often, this put me in the peculiar position of an unsettled daily routine, and locally brewed coffees. But it is always, and I mean always! such a delight to have a coffee made for you by a local, and made the way their parents and their parents parents have perhaps done so for centuries.

My accommodation Oct 2017
Latitude: 42:32;0.2, Longitude: 73;5;46.01, Altitude: 3,125msl
The Kazakhstan coffee was hot, its robusta and it was poured for all of us and from the same pot we had just had porridge served from.

The coffee is much better than the signage on Borneo Island Indonesia.
This is nearby where I had my first encounter with OB Java (one of my favourites).
Latitude: 3;30;41.909, Longitude: 116;38;28.260, Altitude: 27msl

Picture taken Oct 2021. A short 20km stroll up a 1,000m hill from the city centre of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Latitude: 43.05060N, Longitude: 76.98500E, Altitude: 2,511msl

Almaty is the financial capital of Kazakhstan and it is basically littered with a great selection of good coffee shops. During my visit, my regular was a small shop on Gogol Street which is within the old square quarter, the oldest part of the city. The barista was serving a single origin Brazilian, Santos much to my delight and for my daily grind.